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Background Startup

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saurabhsubham.singh
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Firefox Start Up Automatically After System Boot Up And Using almost 50% of Gpu. Also Starts Automatically When I close All Tabs & Firefox Too. And When I close Firefox From Task manager After Some Time it start automatically & CPU Usage is 50%

Firefox Start Up Automatically After System Boot Up And Using almost 50% of Gpu. Also Starts Automatically When I close All Tabs & Firefox Too. And When I close Firefox From Task manager After Some Time it start automatically & CPU Usage is 50%
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user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
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Hi saurabhsubham.singh, It sounds like you have a malware issue -

Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware

cor-el
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Another program might try to use the default browser to connect to internet in a way that isn't compatible with Firefox. Does this also happen if Firefox isn't the default browser ?